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Originally Posted by FiveWide
Question from a newbie on this board. What exactly is a pool party?
thx,
-Five
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Getting together and betting a race per week or every two weeks. It started on a conference call with HANA in February of 2009. After a month or so of lining up the industry behind the idea, the first one was at Wil Rogers Downs.
Dana from Hello Race Fans called it a Pool Party and that was the name that stuck.
http://blog.horseplayersassociation....into-pool.html
There were dozens of blog posts, media contacts and stories about it. I think the seven or eight of them must have drawn about $200,000 + in handle for the tracks that were chosen.
HANA members Mike and Ross were the directors of it along with the board and after several months their lives got in the way. They did a hell of a job though; many hours per week working away at it. It was fun.
Monday will not be a Pool Party of course, but a Bombs Away Monday at Sam Houston. Jeff Platt will be Monday's guest handicapper on the blog for the card. Bob I assume will be working it on Twitter.
So if you are interested, download the card for Monday!
